These United States: The Questions of Our Past, Concise Edition, Volume 2: Since 1865 (Chapters 16-31) - Softcover

Unger, Irwin

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9780132299671: These United States: The Questions of Our Past, Concise Edition, Volume 2: Since 1865 (Chapters 16-31)

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ISBN 10: 0132299674 ISBN 13: 9780132299671

Publisher: Pearson, 2006

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Using a thematic approach, this concise survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social, intellectual, cultural, political, diplomatic, economic, and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousand of years ago throught the crisis following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001.

Irwin Unger, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, wrote this book after discovering from his own experiences teaching American History at the University of California at Davis and at NYU, that a thematic approach was much more interesting to students than a purely descriptive one.

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About the Author:

Pulitzer Prize winning historian Irwin Unger has been teaching American

history for over forty years on both coasts. Born and largely educated in

New York, he has lived in California, Virginia, and Washington State. He is

married to Debi Unger and they have five children, now all safely past their

college years. Professor Unger formerly taught at California State University

at Long Beach, the University of California at Davis, and New York University.

He is now professor emeritus.

Professor Unger’s professional interests have ranged widely within American

history. He has written on Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, and on

the 1960s. His first book, The Greenback Era, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1965.

Since then he has written The Movement: The New Left and (with Debi Unger)

The Vulnerable Years, Turning Point: 1968, The Best of Intentions

(about the Great

Society), and LBJ: A Life, and The Guggenheims: A Family History.

Synopsis:

For undergraduate survey courses in U.S. History. Using a thematic approach, this concise survey explores the many and varied threads of American history-social, intellectual, cultural, political, diplomatic, economic, and military-from the arrival of the first native American inhabitants thousand of years ago throught the crisis following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. Irwin Unger, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, wrote this book after discovering from his own experiences teaching American History at the University of California at Davis and at NYU, that a thematic approach was much more interesting to students than a purely descriptive one.

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